Barbara Walters, seen here on the “Today” show in 1969, announced on Monday that she is retiring.

Bill Carter writes: “Like Johnny Carson, another television standout who took charge of his exit from the national stage, Ms. Walters is picking her television end date exactly one year in advance: over the next year she will participate in a series of retrospectives on ABC prime-time news programs and her home on ‘The View,’ seeking, she said, ‘to say goodbye in the best way.’”